Example sentences of "[be] more [adv] [verb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is made crystal clear in a somewhat laboured exposition in a book by Preece and Maier published in 1889 : Let us suppose the two microphonic transmitters are placed on the stage at T and T 1 , and these transmitters separately connected by two distinct wires to two telephone receivers , R and R 1 , which are applied to both ears to hear the actor , whom we will suppose to be placed at A. It is easy to understand that , the distance of this actor from transmitter T being less than that from transmitter T 1 , his song will be more distinctly reproduced by transmitter T than by T 1 , and the stronger impression will be produced on the left ear . |
| 2 | The process whereby rivers have been straightened and lowered to allow all riverside land to be more intensively cropped for grass and grain has often been expensive in terms of both wasted investment and loss of landscape . |
| 3 | Time of presentation can be more objectively obtained from hospital records and is more relevant when assessing service requirements . |
| 4 | Stephen Gould , in his excellent essay on The Pan da " s Thumb , has made the point that evolution can be more strongly supported by evidence of telling imperfections than by evidence of perfection . |
| 5 | It is pointed out , for example , that what is of most interest is not pay levels but living standards , and the latter can be more easily influenced through tax and benefit policies . |
| 6 | The implications of the requirement of coherence can be more easily demonstrated in relation to atemporal objects . |
| 7 | It is , however , a presumption that may be more easily displaced in family cases particularly those involving children where it has not in the past been usual practice to award costs against an unsuccessful party . |
| 8 | Education , moreover , was tending to reduce those differences that still remained ; the proportion of children receiving their education through Russian was steadily increasing , and Russian-speaking Tatars were found in turn to be more favourably disposed towards internationality contact in their home and workplace . |
| 9 | As the scale of local government grew and the environment began to change more rapidly , it became apparent that services needed to be more closely integrated in order that they would meet the needs of the environment . |
| 10 | The conference will seek to identify ways in which emerging technology can be more closely geared to end-user needs . |
| 11 | If you have been out of nursing or health visiting for six months or less you may feel that completing a formal course is a waste of valuable time which might be more profitably spent in reorientation to your new job . |
| 12 | In north west Scotland sailing and climbing are ideal combinations as much of the wilder country can be more quickly reached by sea . |
| 13 | Nor should we expect the very few who do not want to teach to continue to do so when they might be more usefully employed in management , audit , service , or research tasks . |
| 14 | Galloway has commented that ‘ teachers and magistrates who see legal sanctions as the solution to the problem of poor attendance might be more happily occupied in search of the Holy Grail ’ . |
| 15 | The consequences of this gulf between ‘ hidden ’ users and official agencies will be more fully explored in Chapter 9 . |
| 16 | ( This will be more fully discussed in Chapter 7 ) . |
| 17 | The circumstances in which section 75 of the Consumer Credit Act applies will be more fully considered in Chapter 23 . |
| 18 | While it may be straightforward to think of school development planning , teacher appraisal , the identifying of remediable faults and the training or retraining of teachers as one set of loosely connected but manageable disciplines , it is less straightforward but equally urgent to expect that other connections should be more systematically organized in order to give assurances of quality . |
| 19 | The neighbourhood ( for which physical limits may be assigned ) acted as a base for a group but , often , these groups could be more accurately defined by housing and class interests than purely by locality . |
| 20 | Anderson 's greater interest in some topics of conversation above others is something which can be more accurately described through analysis of topic- shifts , turn-taking and turn-length in the different conversational situations in the play . |